И Эта:
Маскарад.
На этом бале танцуют со смертью,
на этом пире ведают жизнь.
Один в бокале топит мысли,
другой жадно что то есть.
И совесть не так сильно душит,
когда аромат так красив.
Мы давно продали души,
Маскарад будет длиться всю жизнь.
Громким вихрем несёмся по залам,
при свете свеч оскалив клыки.
Который час мы умолкнем,
а потом снова на бис.
Но совесть не так сильно душит,
когда аромат так красив.
Мы умрём, что с того же?
Маскарад будет длиться всю жизнь.
И совесть не так сильно душит,
когда аромат так красив.
Мы давно продали души,
Маскарад будет длиться всю жизнь.
(I didn't write this). However, even after time has passed, I still find it rather brilliant.
August 2: 2014.
See, I am well aware that this time is officially dead. Gone. You cannot bring it back. I was never there, just like I was never in the American Civil War, even though my great-great-great grandfather was.
That does not mean it should not be celebrated. Remembered. Turned into Art. See, like John Keats said, (in "Ode To a Grecian Urn"):
All breathing human passion far above,
That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloy'd,
A burning forehead, and a parching tongue....
When old age shall this generation waste,
Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe
Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st,
"Beauty is truth...
There are times that are beautiful. Humanity should remember, and preserve them in amber, like a spider in a honey-gold ring. A scarab.
How? Art. A Film. A Story. A Song.
Nov 30:
BTW--I'm not into this being straight bio. I like better the idea of tracing the lasting impact a time has on the ages. How it saved someone, twenty, thirty years later. Gave hope and purpose, even when time ended. How exactly does that happen? Magic.
I'm not sure if I have the right knowledge to write enough of this by myself --music, too. I can try, I suppose--maybe this summer's project.
May 24: What I've written may be the middle, rather than the beginning.
Music to cause the transition?/ Конечно . But not a taxi. A closet. Don't ask me why, it just feels right. Not with green-eyes)).
Bjork's "Hidden Place" needs to be somewhere. but maybe not here--except only an instrumental part.
First music to come to mind? That Assa song--Victor Tsoi--"Change.' But is it the right mood?
Also a number of Aquarium songs.
Opening scene I have in my mind now? A four-year-old. Dancing, out of his mind with happiness. But what song??? The childhood heimlich thing adds depth to this......
Then I have a voice-over of the protagonist: explaining life's dilemmas.
June 1: So, my daughter coincidentally sent me some PDFs that had to do with something she's working on --an essay with a feminist slant, I think, on body image and other odd things women deal with. She's using Freud's idea of the "uncanny" somehow, in particular the concept of doubling. It has a connection to E.T.A. Hoffman's (Tales of Hoffman? The "other" Grimm's fairy tales?) "Sandman" story--don't ask me how. Yeah, it's probably the same idea from the Metallica song, but James Hetfield may have gotten it from Neil Gaiman and the Comix.
But, somehow, when I read the source--all these convoluted definitions based on the German root word for home--heim. In particular, the related words heimlich and unheimlich. The first means homely, but more in the sense of familiar, cozy--home-like? which then somehow flips on itself to also mean hidden and secret--stuff to do with the subconscious, I imagine, with Freud. So unheimlich somehow ends up being unfamiliar, and familiar simultaneously--leaving, if I am understanding properly--an uncanny feeling. Leaving you to believe in spirits, perhaps or other dimensions of life, the past coming back--(now you see where I am going with this).. Like you feel as a kid in bed at night, that something is out there--the Sandman, the Bogeyman.
In the Hoffman story, the protagonist Nathanael has a beautiful, perfect fiancee-Klara, but he later falls for another perfect one, Olympia, who turns out to be a false clockwork, and she is destroyed. There is a scene where he climbs a clock tower with his true girl, supposedly recovered from his obsessions, but at the top of the tower he goes into a fit and seems to think Klara is Olympia-tries to throw her from the tower, saying the same curse he said to Olympia---about her eyes. The Sandman.
The movie Vertigo??? Unbelievable connection. Also, I think Gogol's "Viy" has some similar ideas. I did not know Gogol starved himself to death, that Dead Souls was intended to be part of a trilogy, patterned on the Divine Comedy.
Freud of course wants you to believe this is all relates to some sort of infantile regression--he mentions the womb, as usual, and castration. He loses me on the castration--something to do with the sandman story of how he steals your eyes. If you ask me, Freud's the one with the bizarre obsession.
Anyway, I'm rather fascinated by this stuff , and plan to use it as subliminally as I can.
July 18: Earlier this week I found in a library a really beautiful copy of Gaiman's Sandman II, the comic book/graphic novel-- all bound in thick black leather--must be worth something. I didn't check it out, but I took a picture.
January 17, 2016: It's still Bowie week here in the land of mourning. And here's yet another interesting article that relates to rock in Soviet times:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/roads/2016/01/mitki_the_soviet_era_youth_movement_that_loathed_david_bowie.html
Jan 24, 2017: Yes a year has past, with this idea still gestating. Means it has staying power. Every time I read this thread I get kind of excited about it again. Timing. Fate has it's ear for timing, like a good musician. I feel opportunity rising, in silence. But it needs to be done slowly, Despacito. That's okay with me.
What else to say, to add? Reliability. Adventure and Love. I need to get really excited for the old music again. Random ideas:
Nov 30:
BTW--I'm not into this being straight bio. I like better the idea of tracing the lasting impact a time has on the ages. How it saved someone, twenty, thirty years later. Gave hope and purpose, even when time ended. How exactly does that happen? Magic.
No. I have not given up this idea. I think it's one of the best I've ever had.
May 24: What I've written may be the middle, rather than the beginning.
Music to cause the transition?/ Конечно . But not a taxi. A closet. Don't ask me why, it just feels right. Not with green-eyes)).
Bjork's "Hidden Place" needs to be somewhere. but maybe not here--except only an instrumental part.
First music to come to mind? That Assa song--Victor Tsoi--"Change.' But is it the right mood?
Also a number of Aquarium songs.
Opening scene I have in my mind now? A four-year-old. Dancing, out of his mind with happiness. But what song??? The childhood heimlich thing adds depth to this......
Then I have a voice-over of the protagonist: explaining life's dilemmas.
June 1: So, my daughter coincidentally sent me some PDFs that had to do with something she's working on --an essay with a feminist slant, I think, on body image and other odd things women deal with. She's using Freud's idea of the "uncanny" somehow, in particular the concept of doubling. It has a connection to E.T.A. Hoffman's (Tales of Hoffman? The "other" Grimm's fairy tales?) "Sandman" story--don't ask me how. Yeah, it's probably the same idea from the Metallica song, but James Hetfield may have gotten it from Neil Gaiman and the Comix.
But, somehow, when I read the source--all these convoluted definitions based on the German root word for home--heim. In particular, the related words heimlich and unheimlich. The first means homely, but more in the sense of familiar, cozy--home-like? which then somehow flips on itself to also mean hidden and secret--stuff to do with the subconscious, I imagine, with Freud. So unheimlich somehow ends up being unfamiliar, and familiar simultaneously--leaving, if I am understanding properly--an uncanny feeling. Leaving you to believe in spirits, perhaps or other dimensions of life, the past coming back--(now you see where I am going with this).. Like you feel as a kid in bed at night, that something is out there--the Sandman, the Bogeyman.
In the Hoffman story, the protagonist Nathanael has a beautiful, perfect fiancee-Klara, but he later falls for another perfect one, Olympia, who turns out to be a false clockwork, and she is destroyed. There is a scene where he climbs a clock tower with his true girl, supposedly recovered from his obsessions, but at the top of the tower he goes into a fit and seems to think Klara is Olympia-tries to throw her from the tower, saying the same curse he said to Olympia---about her eyes. The Sandman.
The movie Vertigo??? Unbelievable connection. Also, I think Gogol's "Viy" has some similar ideas. I did not know Gogol starved himself to death, that Dead Souls was intended to be part of a trilogy, patterned on the Divine Comedy.
Freud of course wants you to believe this is all relates to some sort of infantile regression--he mentions the womb, as usual, and castration. He loses me on the castration--something to do with the sandman story of how he steals your eyes. If you ask me, Freud's the one with the bizarre obsession.
Anyway, I'm rather fascinated by this stuff , and plan to use it as subliminally as I can.
July 18: Earlier this week I found in a library a really beautiful copy of Gaiman's Sandman II, the comic book/graphic novel-- all bound in thick black leather--must be worth something. I didn't check it out, but I took a picture.January 17, 2016: It's still Bowie week here in the land of mourning. And here's yet another interesting article that relates to rock in Soviet times:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/roads/2016/01/mitki_the_soviet_era_youth_movement_that_loathed_david_bowie.html
Jan 24, 2017: Yes a year has past, with this idea still gestating. Means it has staying power. Every time I read this thread I get kind of excited about it again. Timing. Fate has it's ear for timing, like a good musician. I feel opportunity rising, in silence. But it needs to be done slowly, Despacito. That's okay with me.
What else to say, to add? Reliability. Adventure and Love. I need to get really excited for the old music again. Random ideas:
- An I-phone with the iconic white earbuds becomes an old Sony Walkman--all black. It's how we tell what decade we're in
- of course filters on the film for the different decades. Californication used some sort of filter that upped the blacks and dark blues--washed out the colors. That would work for the past here too.
- References to Time Machines? Dr. Who's Police Call Box? The Tardis. Think about Stephen King's Nov 22, 1963--the less explained the better....
- Visual references to other movies with similar themes, i.e. The Big Chill, ACCA, Стиляги
- What music causes the sendback? Maybe one song back, one forward. Maybe different songs go to different decades, places.
- Наутилус Помпилиус
- Of course! Конечно! Наутилус Помпилиус--"Это Музыка Будет Вечной Если Я Заменю Батарейки"--what else would it be? Nautilus Pompilius "This music will be eternal if I change the battery..." for LRC times. Funny-I've never been too keen on the music in this one, except maybe the chorus.
- Maybe it takes a combination of two songs to make it work? The Nautilus in gen plus one to fine-tune the time.
- Bowie as time/space traveler
- The closet is full of references to musical eras
- The time traveler lives in two worlds, as I've previously explained--somewhere.
- Time traveler gives a song to the past? Will it disturb time's flow?
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